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[Gravekeeper]

The redirect likely works through javascript. You can turn that off, or set it to not allow redirects.

^ Likely that. From what I see its affecting basically every OS and device that can execute javascript. Which means its likely not something local on your machine like a virus or malware. Its an ad hijack being served up at random through Google ads it seems.

I haven't hit it myself but I have things fairly locked down on my interwebs out of paranoia and annoyance of these sorts of things. If its coming through Google ads its likely targetted at certain sites or demographcis. So I may just not be on the right sites for it.

[Gravekeeper]

I have an android tablet and I have AVG, free edition. Is that good?

/threadjack

AVG is kind of butt. I mean, it works but its pretty average and kinda clunky. It use to be pretty good but its declined a bit over the years. Generally ranks below other freeware antivirus like Bitdefender or Avira.

[Rageaholic]

Here's an article describing this. It's apparently a problem with Google Adsense, but as the author of the article asks, why the hell hasn't google done anything about this? It's been going on for a week and while there appears to be no malware, it's extremely annoying.

[Andara Bledin]

This has been going on for years actually.

The problem is that shutting down the ads is like playing whack-a-mole. You get one shut down, but unbeknownst to you, there's another one already in the queue.

However, I know that the site can actually specify certain things about the ads they run to cut down on this sort of situation. It won't stop it -there's just no way to keep smappers and redirects from showing up in a mostly-automated system- but it can help curb the problem.

Plus, if nobody reports it to Google, then Google just isn't going to know it's a problem. Hopefully the people on the forum are doing more than bitching on the forum.

[Hyena Dandy]

Here's an article describing this. It's apparently a problem with Google Adsense, but as the author of the article asks, why the hell hasn't google done anything about this? It's been going on for a week and while there appears to be no malware, it's extremely annoying.

Google may be working on the problem and not have FIXED it yet. "We haven't solved it" doesn't mean "We aren't doing something about it" and it may be taking advantage of something they aren't aware of.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have firefox adblock so I'm not seeing any ads. If the redirect does pop up, I'll report it to adblock so they can add it to their "bad ad" list.

[Rageaholic]

Well I'm not getting these redirects anymore, but my computer has been running a lot slower since yesterday. Hmm...